Here are the 26 contestants who will compete in the Portuguese selection Festival da Canção 2018. The winner will represent Portugal on home soil.

26 songs will compete in the Portuguese selection for Eurovision 2018: Festival da Canção. The Portuguese broadcaster RTP earlier announced the 26 composers who will write the songs, and now each of the 26 composers have picked an artists (or picked themselves) to perform their song:

Portugal has participated 49 times since 1964. It was a very bad start, as they managed to get Zero Points in the debuting year. Before Eurovision 2017 they have never won the contest, and never made the top-5. In fact Portugal held the record for most appearances in the contest without a win! But that changed in 2017, where Salvador Sobral won with "Amar Pelos Dois".

Since the introduction of Semi-finals in 2004 Portugal only qualified for the Grand Final 4 out of 12 times.